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title: "What is NIC?"  
description: "What is NIC?"  
author: "Sandra Emily"  
published: 2022-04-25  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96989/what-is-nic  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "internet", "networking"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is NIC?

What is [NIC](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32111/which-ministry-launched-first-nic-cert-recently)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- A **[network](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96994/explain-various-types-of-networks-based-on-their-sizes) interface card (NIC)** is a piece of hardware that allows a computer to connect to a network. It is a circuit board that is installed in a computer and provides the machine with a dedicated network connection. It's also known as a network adapter, network interface controller, or LAN adapter.
- Both cable and wireless communication are possible with the NIC.
- The network interface card (NIC) enables communication between computers linked via a local area network (LAN) as well as communication over a large-scale network using the Internet Protocol (IP).
- A network interface card (NIC) is a physical layer and data link layer device that provides the essential hardware circuitry for physical layer and some data link layer activities to execute on it.

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